Hi,
I had another use for this. I have trouble taking pictures of flowers with very saturated colours, they can be overexposed while the rest isn't, and have less shading detail.
My idea is to take 3 pictures but exposure for R,G, B separately. Then combine the 3 pics into a normal, but fake higher-bit DNG file. For example boost Blue by 2 stops, then shift it down 2 bits, and make a fake 16bit DNG from a 14bit sensor. This is like a fake floating point. It would give better accuracy in colour balance and more detail with saturated subjects. You might wonder about mismatched highlights - this can be fixed with usual highlight recovery, but there's a slight problem. You'd have to do normal highlight recovery on equalized channels first then put them back to proper colour balance, if you follow.
For now, make sure there's no overexposure in each colour. Can this be done? I don't know to construct a fake DNG in this way.
In fact for flowers, I'd like to just expose for (say) red, I don't even care if background has highlights since it's not the subject.
For another idea, I'd like to analyze raw buffer without saving between pictures. At first for noise analysis, but also for photogrammatry or looking for scene change etc. Hopefully it's much faster when I don't need to save the buffer.